Tends to work with

General location of clients:

Greater London, United Kingdom

Content Management System:

Sometimes an open source solution is not enough to fit the clients need, and in those situations rather than trying to make the client fit the system we develop a bespoke one to fill the exact requirements of the client.
Of course this inflicts heavily on the price but if what you need is a bespoke system we would be happy to help you.

We Recommend:

Over more than 120 years, Beares has built a deserved reputation as the world’s most respected violin dealer and expert through buying, selling, making and restoring instruments and bows of exceptional quality. Read More

With over 20 years experience catering in homes, marquees and prestigious venues in and around London, Melanies are devoted to supplying both corporate and private clients with an event to remember. Read More

Reviewed on 13 Jun, 2017Great Experince
I have worked with the team to build a digital marketplace. The project was very successful because if the team's understanding of the marketing and other aspects of the concept and their professionalism.Very cr...Read More

Natik
— Transact Via Legal

Reviewed on 13 Jun, 2017As a small company in the competitive world of Advertising, I needed to upgrade and re-design my company Website.
My brief to Webdezign was my new site had to be easy and quick for the user to navigate around, showcased my work...Read More

Anton
— Anton Ezer

Reviewed on 13 Jun, 2017Webdezign: What a great team to work with!
I have worked with the Webdezign team for over 6 years now. They are professional, supportive, understanding and patient! When we developed our web site, I had some crazy ideas that we...Read More

Peter Mansi
— FIUK

Awards

Q : Where do you see your company in 10 years time? A : Our aim is to continue to grow the business over the coming few years. And by the looks of it, we will soon have to look for bigger premises as well. It is getting cramped in the office.

Q : How was your company name chosen?A : The ‘Webdezign’ says it all! The domain was registered back in 1999 after which the ltd company name of Active Webdezign was established to also cheekily be listed near the beginning of the Yellow Pages. The name has remained and fits well with our company ethos ‘servicing the client efficiently’.

How to rezise images for your website for FREE
Do you have loads of great images that you want to resize to fit your website's design?
Follow our step-by-step guide to resize images in bulk using the free software, PIXresizer. It's so easy that, whether you're a technical wizard or an online novice, you'll find it simple to resize all your images at once to fit your site.

Get inspiration for your design
OK, so you have found a web design company you are happy to work with, and they are asking you what inspires you, what do you want your website to look like. You might scratch your head, isn't that their job? Well yes, but it makes their life a whole lot easier if you give them something to go on. What colours do you like, what kind of imagery do you associate with your brand?

Top 5 Benefits of a Website
We are often contacted by people who have been told that they need a website, but they are not really sure as to why they should get one or what the benefits would be. The following is necessarily generalised as each and every business and market sector has different requirements. However, it represents the most common 5 ways in which a business can potentially gain advantage as a result of having a website.

TOP 10 REASONS WHY YOUR WEBSITE SHOULD BE RESPONSIVE
If you have heard or read about responsive websites, but don’t believe that your site needs to be updated in this manner, you may be missing out. There are a strong number of reasons why a responsive website is vital for growing your business and the following 10 reasons are all big factors in why should be looking to switch to a responsive website like ours.

Why we use WordPress
Close to 24% of websites are running WordPress, making WordPress the most popular Content Management System (CMS) on earth.

Google local SEO guide
Search engine optimisation is essential for any online business. SEO is especially useful for finding new customers and improving online visibility. Search engines like Google are constantly widening the goal posts by updating their algorithms keeping it fair and just for all. Active Webdezign have put together some useful tips for you to keep your SEO as affective as possible.

10 Websites with Free Stock Photos
Finding good quality images for your website or blog is one thing, but finding quality images that are also free is an entirely different story.

Is Magento Ecommerce for everyone?
There is a growing level of interest and praise being ushered on to the Magento ecommerce platform, and if you are looking for a reliable and reputable ecommerce platform, this is certainly a platform worth examining. Industry experts are in agreement that Magento has the ability to save time, allow you to offer a more engaging service to your client and it can help your firm to save money, due to the open source nature of the platform.

Why should you get an SSL (padlock) for your website
An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificate is a must have for an eCommerce website. By using an SSL Certificate, you can put a padlock on your website that will give your customers peace of mind and increase their security – vital for eCommerce!

How often should I redesign my website?
It’s natural to get attached to your current site and miss the potential you could achieve with a brand new web design. However, when you consider things from the perspective of your visitors, all becomes clear.

Domain Privacy Protection
Some people who own a domain name may already be aware that their personal details are openly available via the who-is database of domain registrants (e.g. www.whois-search.com). This is quite a worrying thought, as details such as names, addresses and emails are published and openly available for anyone to access. Is there no such things as [b]Domain Privacy Protection?[/b]

Filter:

John & Arthur Beare

Over more than 120 years, Beares has built a deserved reputation as the world’s most respected violin dealer and expert through buying, selling, making and restoring instruments and bows of exceptional quality.

Services provided

Storksen - Nordic Nail Bar

Storksen is the brainchild of mother and daughter duo Brit Storksen and Hannah Storksen-Coulson. Both avid believers that undergoing any kind of nail or beauty treatment should be a pleasurable and relaxing experience from start to finish, Hannah and Brit wanted to provide something not readily available in North London.

Technical specification

Languages:

English

Project type:

Content Managed

Organisation category:

SME

Industry:

Health & Beauty

Content managed (CMS):

Yes

CMS Description:

Wordpress

Online Payment System:

N/A

Size of project team:

2

Technologies used:

PHP, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, mySQL, HTML5, CSS3

Completion date:

May 2013

Services provided

LEDConnection

LEDConnection are a specialist LED lighting company servicing both the retails and trade markets for energy saving technology. Our brief was to provide a simple but effective showcase for the individual stock items which would function as a catalogue also.

Technical specification

Languages:

English

Project type:

E-commerce

Organisation category:

SME

Industry:

Sports & Leisure

Content managed (CMS):

Yes

CMS Description:

Magento

Online Payment System:

Sagepay & Paypal

Size of project team:

2

Technologies used:

PHP, JavaScript, XML, (X)HTML, CSS, mySQL, HTML5, CSS3

Completion date:

April 2013

Services provided

Transeuropean

Founded in 1970, Transeuropean is one of the UK's leading suppliers of high quality European imported left hand drive cars for sale, supplying customers all over the globe. We are proud to welcome you to our website. In addition to supplying both new and used left hand drive cars (LHD cars), we also supply right hand drive cars. Brands include: Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagen and BMW.

Technical specification

Languages:

ENglish

Project type:

Content Managed

Organisation category:

Private Company

Industry:

Sports & Leisure

Content managed (CMS):

Yes

CMS Description:

Magento

Online Payment System:

N/A

Size of project team:

3

Technologies used:

PHP, JavaScript, XML, (X)HTML, CSS, mySQL, HTML5, CSS3

Completion date:

March 2013

Services provided

Urban Crazy

The client had provided the designs prepared by a different agency so we were in charge of the technical implementation. The emphasis again was on simplicity, along with the use of images and video embedding to showcase the large range of products, designs and accessories that Urban Crazy offer. To this we added Testimonial and News-feed pages for many of the events and exhibitions the company service, along with a number of brochure download applications to give potential customers more in depth information they can take away or show to colleagues.

Technical specification

Languages:

English

Project type:

Content Managed

Organisation category:

Private Company

Industry:

Entertainment

Content managed (CMS):

Yes

CMS Description:

Wordpress

Online Payment System:

N/A

Size of project team:

2

Technologies used:

PHP, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, mySQL, HTML5

Completion date:

February 2013

Services provided

Hosting, Development

Clients Review

“Thanks to Mike and the team at Webdezign for upgrading our website – the new site is infinitely more attractive and functional than the old one. We’ve had great feedback so far, with customers telling us it’s easy to navigate and that it gets the message across. And from an admin perspective, the CMS is nice and simple to use – something that was always very important to us. Thanks again Webdezign for all your patience, hard work and skill!”

Andy Whitmore

One of our recent projects was for the music producer Andy Whitmore. Andy was the first to admit that his expertise lay in making hit singles for people like Peter Andre rather than knowing a great deal about search engine optimisation or being particularly web-savvy.

Clients Review

Thank you Mike, Peter & the guys at Webdezign for a brilliant job on my website. They followed the brief, were very creative, the job was done on time & all feedback was incorporated on first mention. All I can say is that they all did a great job! I would recommend them and Jim the content writer (http://www.copywritingforweb.com/) any day of the week.

Achieva

We needed to approach the site in terms of the differences in cultures between us as a UK based company and also with an ear for languages. Luckily for us at Webdezign, our programmer is Swedish and our copywriter is a Russian speaker. That gave us an edge that few other web design companies would have: the ability to understand both the language and the insight of language specialists to be able to utilise the differences in other cultures to both make the site stand out and appeal to other cultures.

Technical specification

Languages:

English

Project type:

Content Managed

Organisation category:

SME

Industry:

Professional Services

Content managed (CMS):

Yes

CMS Description:

Wordpress

Online Payment System:

N/A

Size of project team:

2

Technologies used:

PHP, JavaScript, (X)HTML, CSS, mySQL, Html5, CSS3

Completion date:

January 2013

Services provided

Hosting, Content and Copy, Development, Design, Social Media

Clients Review

I was looking for a company that could help me explain that for a UK based company to enter the Norwegian marketplace with their services or products you had to understand how the mindset o the Norwegian people work. That is of course what I specialise in, being the Norwegian I am! In Webdezign I found a capable team that understood the message I tried to get across and also supplied me with a brilliant copywriter www.martindyke.co.uk who funnily enough had a degree in 'sayings' my main thing to try and communicate my message. The website turned out great and I'm coming back shortly to make another one for the Norwegian market trying to enter the UK.

Aspens Florist

Aspens florists have been established since1987; in 1995 were one of the first florists in the UK to go on-line. Our updated web-site is designed to enhance your on-line experience and ease the ordering process.

Technical specification

Languages:

ENglish

Project type:

E-commerce

Organisation category:

SME

Industry:

Health & Beauty

Content managed (CMS):

Yes

CMS Description:

Magento

Online Payment System:

SagePay

Size of project team:

3

Technologies used:

PHP, JavaScript, XML, (X)HTML, CSS, mySQL

Completion date:

December 2012

Services provided

Hosting, Design

Clients Review

I'm currently sitting in the office of Active Webdezign ironing out the final details on my ecommerce project. One of the developers is tinkering away at his keyboard, a lovely young lady is talking me through the process of updating my carousel on the homepage while Mike their boss is making me a coffee. They are all very friendly and approachable. The only delays we have had has been on my part, I should have listened to them when they said that setting up my payment gateway could take quite some time. I highly recommend you speak to Mike if you need help with a project.

Client Reviews

I have worked with the team to build a digital marketplace. The project was very successful because if the team's understanding of the marketing and other aspects of the concept and their professionalism.Very creative and kind people with a sense for state of the art technologies and innovative ideas.

As a small company in the competitive world of Advertising, I needed to upgrade and re-design my company Website.

My brief to Webdezign was my new site had to be easy and quick for the user to navigate around, showcased my work with a simple but strong graphic look, and allowed me to upload any new work I’d done both quickly and simply.
Webdezign answered my brief.

They are efficient in their delivery of ideas. They work quickly and to a budget. And, most importantly, were helping throughout the early teething stages any new website inevitably has.

I can’t recommend them enough, plus, they are lovely people to work with.

I have worked with the Webdezign team for over 6 years now. They are professional, supportive, understanding and patient! When we developed our web site, I had some crazy ideas that were only in my head, like a wavy reflection of our logo on a shimmering water surface and then I wanted it to become a sharp reflection of that logo. And they did it! A great team that I would recommend all day. We have had some fantastic clients via the web site and they have commented on how good it looks.

Mike, Peter and team were very friendly, yet thoroughly professional throughout the migration, design and building of our website and email. I was delighted with the result and have been frequently complimented on the appearance and navigability of our Webdezign-built website. I wholeheartedly recommend Webdezign to any business and will be pleased to maintain our working relationship.

Arbras Gallery

Arbras Gallery are long returning clients of Active Webdezign, from producing their company logo to 10,000 designed and printed catalogues. This successful company based in the Portobello Road in London has seen a great increase in business with their new online presence

Technical specification

Languages:

English

Project type:

E-commerce

Organisation category:

Private Company

Industry:

Retail

Content managed (CMS):

Yes

CMS Description:

Digishop

Online Payment System:

N/A

Size of project team:

4

Technologies used:

CSS, JavaScript, mySQL, PHP,

Completion date:

March 2009

Services provided

Webdezine have been first class in developing and publishing our company's new website using the Magento 2 ecommerce platform. They followed our design brief and we had 1 to 1 meetings to clarify our design requirements.

The team were very helpful and supportive throughout the duration of the project as well as with the smooth migration of the company domain and emails from previous Hosting Company. The Company’s response time was incredible to all questions I had and the aftercare and on-going technical support was equally excellent. The company is based in the UK (i.e. London) and this makes communication & face to face meetings much easier.

I now have a professional responsive website which works across all formats: PCs, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones. Well done to everyone on the team!
Jennifer
JEMPAK UK

We have been using the guys at Webdezign for some years now, we intially chose them to work with as we wanted a local company to expand our existing website and once I had met the guys I was sold ! No tech talk.. everything explained so that you can fully understand, the service they offer is truly outstanding, nothing is ever too much trouble and they really do work WITH you rather than FOR you, which I have been told in this industry is quite rare..... Mike, Peter, Nihal and the team are a great bunch to work with and have taken our website from strength to strength without any headaches.... advice when needed has always been very good and most importantly at a very reasonable cost to us.... oh and they do a great coffee !!

Mike and the team work cohesively, each of them applying their individual talents to your website.

I have had so much positive feedback about my website and it's design and it is entirely down to Webdezign. From the first appointment with Mike, through all the adjustments, to the final product, I was made to feel welcome and valued as a customer. Nothing is ever a problem for them. They respond to my emails so promptly and constructively. I cannot recommend Mike, Peter and Nihal highly enough for anyone who wants a high quality website.

As a novice in this area and working on behalf of a client, I relied on webdezign to 'hold my hand' throughout the process. They were always very patient with me even when I asked the same question twice! They are always at the end of the phone or email when I have a query long after the work has been completed - in fact I need to ask their advice again!

I have no hesitation in recommending mike and webdezign to other small businesses looking for help with designing, developing and maintaining their website.

View more reviews

Mike Yan

Technical Director

Mike is our Technical Director and also works as Project Coordinator in most cases.

Nihal Mohideen Thamby

Development Director

Nihal is curretly the lead developer and apart from advising on technical solutions to clients he manages a small team of junior developers.

Peter Wimrén

Design Director

As one of the Original team at Webdezign, Peter has grown in his role and is now in charge of everything Design.

Shop front

Shop front close up

Q: What's your name and position in the company?
A: Mike Yan, MD and Technical Director

Q: Describe your company in 5 words.
A: Cutting edge, Service driven, Professional

Q: What's your business philosophy?
A: Its all about the client

Q: Describe your office environment.
A: We have a light and stylish first floor studio with nice views over green open space.

Q: Describe how your team interact and work together.
A: The team is motivated by challenging tasks which are developed further through interactive feedback.

Q: What makes you different from other web design companies?
A: No corporate regime or any one considered as higher management, informal conduct code whilst offering a more personal approach, delivering complete business relationship rather than just building a website.

Q: How do you get the majority of your business?
A: Through word of mouth, happy customers recommend new customers. And after almost 10 years in the industry we have a lot of happy customers.

Q: Describe how you manage projects from the initial client contact to completion and handover.
A: Beginning with an informal non obligatory consultation we go on to produce a complete proposal for client consideration. On acceptance of the proposal we work on developing a complete functional specification with the client. The design process begins with initial draft pages presented to client for sign off. Development staged on test server so that client can follow build stages. Online project management system ensures milestones and client feedback is logged and processed.

Q: What do you think is the most crucial element of creating a good client relationship?
A: Treating each other with mutual respect, I think that's quite a given one. We each have parts of making your website a success, you the business and us the online knowledge. You teach us about your business and we teach you what you could achieve online.

Q: How do you manage demanding clients?
A: We understand that clients don’t have much time and have business’s to run, so cannot afford delays and setbacks, we use a step by step approach to keep the project moving along at a fast steady pace and closely synchronized to the project time plan.

Q: If a client was trying to decide between a shortlist of web design companies, how would you recommend they go about selecting the right one for them?
A: The foremost rule is that one should never make a decision on price alone. Other important factors should be taken into account in the selection process such as examples of previous client work, testimonials or recommendations, a survey of the company premises to establish the level of manpower and efficiency whilst asking a lot of questions regarding after sales support, training, maintenance, ability to scale up in future and more. Far too often clients have come to us after experiencing a failed project which never got completed on time if at all! Or was no where near to their expectations.

Q: Where do you see your company in 10 years time?
A: Our aim is to continue to grow the business over the coming few years. And by the looks of it, we will soon have to look for bigger premises as well. It is getting cramped in the office.

Q: Where do you see the web design industry in the future?
A: Mobile, we are almost there already. Handheld devices are definitely the way forward. Large online retailers are already (although slowly) creating mobile applications and eCommerce is slowly creating support for mobile as well.

Q: What computers do you have use in your offices, PCs or Macs?
A: Both PC and Mac

Q: How was your company name chosen?
A: The ‘Webdezign’ says it all! The domain was registered back in 1999 after which the ltd company name of Active Webdezign was established to also cheekily be listed near the beginning of the Yellow Pages. The name has remained and fits well with our company ethos ‘servicing the client efficiently’.

Q: If you were to give your clients one tip on how to get the most from their website what would it be?
A: Listen to your web designers, they normally knows what they are talking about. Customers who think they know everything and want to dictate everything usually end up with an inferior product. You don't tell a the gas man how to do his job do you?